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PORTLAND, Tenn. – You're probably used to seeing TSA's signature blue uniforms at the airport, but now agents are hitting the interstates to fight terrorism with Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR).

"Where is a terrorist more apt to be found? Not these days on an airplane more likely on the interstate," said Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security Commissioner Bill Gibbons.

Tuesday Tennessee was first to deploy VIPR simultaneously at five weigh stations and two bus stations across the state.

Agents are recruiting truck drivers, like Rudy Gonzales, into the First Observer Highway Security Program to say something if they see something.

"Not only truck drivers, but cars, everybody should be aware of what's going on, on the road," said Gonzales.

It's all meant to urge every driver to call authorities if they see something suspicious.

"Somebody sees something somewhere and we want them to be responsible citizens, report that and let us work it through our processes to abet the concern that they had when they saw something suspicious," said Paul Armes, TSA Federal Security Director for Nashville International Airport.

"The bottom line is this: if you see something suspicious say something about it," Gibbons said Tuesday.

The random inspections really aren't any more thorough normal, according to Tennessee Highway Patrol Colonel Tracy Trott who says paying attention to details can make a difference. Trott pointed out it was an Oklahoma state trooper who stopped Timothy McVeigh for not having a license plate after the Oklahoma City bombing in the early 1990s.

Tuesday's statewide "VIPR" operation isn't in response to any particular threat, according to officials.

Armes said intelligence indicates law enforcement should focus on the highways as well as the airports.

In 1836, former frontiersman and congressman Davy Crockett led a bandof volunteers all the way from their home State of Tennessee to SanAntonio, Texas, in order to join up with William Travis and his smallcompany of soldiers, and help defend the Alamo--and Texasindependence--from Mexican General Santa Anna and his army of over5,000 seasoned troops. To men such as Crockett, Travis, Jim Bowie, andthe rest, State independence and freedom was worth fighting and dyingfor. To a man, they each proved that. Therefore, it is fitting towonder what Davy Crockett would think about his home State ofTennessee joining with federal agencies in establishing randomcheckpoints throughout the Volunteer State.

According to a local Tennessee news source, “You're probably usedto seeing TSA's signature blue uniforms at the airport, but now agentsare hitting the interstates to fight terrorism with Visible IntermodalPrevention and Response (VIPR).

“‘Where is a terrorist more apt to be found? Not these days on anairplane more likely on the interstate,’ said Tennessee Departmentof Safety & Homeland Security Commissioner Bill Gibbons.

“Tuesday Tennessee was first to deploy VIPR simultaneously at fiveweigh stations and two bus stations across the state.”

The report went on to say, “The Tennessee Highway Patrol checkedtrucks at the weigh station with drug and bomb sniffing dogs duringrandom inspections.”

As I have noted in this column before, the one thing that the bogus“war on terror” and “war on drugs” does is it justifies andratchets up the emerging surveillance state in America. In thisregard, virtually every constitutional and historical protection ofour God-given and civil rights are being systematically and thoroughlyexpunged--in the name of “national security.”

For all intents and purposes, the Patriot Act eviscerated the 4th and5th amendments to the US Constitution (and seriously injured many ofthe others). The Posse Comitatus Act, which dates back to 1878, wasflushed down the toilet during the presidencies of George HerbertWalker Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and now Barack Obama. Since1968, 2nd Amendment liberties are only a shell of what America’sfounders intended and established. And the above-mentioned story outof the State of Tennessee is just the latest example of how the US andState governments are continuing to shred the Bill of Rights--andvirtually every other protection of individual liberties once thoughtsacred.

The State of Tennessee should be ashamed of itself--and the people ofTennessee should be outraged!

The problem is, this kind of unlawful activity has been taking placefor years. And more often than not, it is the federal government thatis both promoting this practice and paying for it, of course. So, whyshould anyone be alarmed that TSA is now joining scores of otherfederal alphabet agencies and getting into the act? At least, that’sthe thinking of these KGB wannabes.

Most of us over the age of 50 can well remember the stories andimages that came out of the old Soviet Union and its satellite statesin the East Bloc. In fact, the phrase, “Show us your papers,” wassymbolic of totalitarianism and despotism. Today, that same phrase ispart and parcel with America’s “war on terror” and considered“patriotic.” Back in the days of “Free America,” checkpointswere synonymous with Red Russia and Red China. We could never haveimagined--or tolerated--those kinds of practices going on in theseUnited States. Now, they are part of everyday life in “OccupiedAmerica,” and standard operating procedure in the State of Tennesseeand elsewhere.

For federal police agencies to be conducting checkpoints (i.e.,Tennessee), organizing searches and seizures against citizenscomplying with State law (i.e., Montana), patrolling city streets(i.e., Alabama, Florida), and even ambushing and killing Americancitizens (i.e., Idaho, Texas) is the sign that the American experimentof federalism, separation of powers, State sovereignty, etc., iscertainly over, and that this new “Occupied America” is in thethroes of an ever-burgeoning police state!

If Davy Crockett lived today, he wouldn’t have to ride far to findoppression to fight, would he?

P.S. My son Tim Baldwin and I have just released the second editionof our blockbuster book, “Romans 13: The True Meaning ofSubmission.” The new edition is simplified, succinct, and verysalient. I am absolutely convinced that if churches and Christiansthroughout America could get a good grasp of the true meaning ofRomans 13, we could literally change the direction of the country!This imbecilic “obey-the-government-no-matter-what”misinterpretation of Romans 13 is as much responsible for America’sdemise as is anything else that one can name. I strongly encouragereaders to purchase this book for themselves and for their friends andrelatives--and especially for their pastors and fellow churchmen.

Tennessee, they were just exposed as being hugely crooked state cops--illegally stopping anyone and everyone to try to find cash which they then confiscate as drug money, and which they then keep at least a part of. TSA fits right in. Report something suspicious--doesn't that happen anyway? I need a special TSA badge, membership card, and special prize to join up and do that??

The effort by the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA to expand their operations from airports to state roads and beyond is being accepted by state and local governments around the country, according to AllGov.com, a website covering government activity.

AllGov.com reports today that other “states are expected to follow and accept VIPR (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response) at their transportation hubs” following recent operations in Tennessee.The unconstitutional operations were not in response “to any particular threat,” but rather designed to act as “a visible deterrence and detection security presence across Tennessee.”

In other words, the operation was an effort to acclimate Tennesseans to militarized TSA units at checkpoints around the state.

In October, the TSA’s VIPR units worked with the Tennessee Highway Patrol and conducted random inspections on interstate roadways in violation of the Fourth Amendment.

Paul Armes, TSA Federal Security Director for Nashville International Airport, told News Channel 5 that intelligence indicates law enforcement should focus on the highways as well as the airports. “Where is a terrorist more apt to be found? Not these days on an airplane more likely on the interstate,” added Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security Commissioner Bill Gibbons.

Since September 11, 2001, the United States has not faced the prospect of a serious domestic terrorist plot. The FBI habitually recruits and publicizes alleged terror plots arranged by its army of informers and operatives for propaganda purposes, but none of these have represented a serious threat. A terror plot hyped on the tenth anniversary of September 11th turned out to be a government concocted ruse. Intelligence agencies reported there was no terrorist threat.

As Patrick Gallahue has documented, the government now routinely conflates terrorism with narco-related crime in an effort to expand its reach and violate the U.S. Constitution.

AllGov.com reports the VIPR budget for FY 2012 is $109 million. It supports 37 VIPR teams. According to the DHS, these “teams are comprised of personnel with expertise in inspection, behavior detection, security screening, and law enforcement for random, unpredictable deployments throughout the transportation sector to prevent potential terrorist and criminal acts.”

It is specifically authorized by 6 U.S.C. § 1112 which states that the program is to “augment the security of any mode of transportation at any location within the United States,” a clear violation of Posse Comitatus. The federal effort to nullify Posse Comitatus and violate the Tenth Amendment under the rubric of anti-terrorism is huge.

The VIPR teams are designed to detain and search citizens at railroad stations, bus stations, ferries, car tunnels, ports, subways, truck weigh stations, rest areas, and special events. Like the Gestapo, many VIPR agents work in civilian clothing.

Airport security style checkpoints and inspection procedures are already in place at bus terminals, train stations, and are rapidly being expanded to the streets of America.

The TSA announced its plan to turn the nation’s highways into Gestapo zones back in February. “These inspection stations are now being expanded to normal roads and highways, unleashing an army of TSA agents who will be given a free hand to litter America with internal checkpoints in a chilling throwback to Soviet-style levels of control over the population,” Paul Jospeh Watson wrote at the time.

“If people think they can avoid the TSA by staying away from airports, they’re going to be in for a rude awakening,” Watson noted. “TSA is clearly engaged in a total takeover of society and plans to have its agents searching, patting down, scanning and harassing Americans at all levels of society, not just at transport hubs but at public events, in the street and on highways and roads across the country.”Similar/Related Articles

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